Sunday, April 08, 2007

Name That Kitchen Item

Not long ago I was attending a meeting of the group I belong to, P.E.O., which raises money to provide scholarships for women. The member who was giving a program that day had borrowed a number of antique kitchen and laundry and farm tools. She challenged us to guess what some of them were and our answers led to lots of laughter.

The item shown here was passed down from Sweetie's mother to him and probably belonged to his grandmother, too. I've never seen another one like it. It seemed like a fun gadget to challenge you bloggers and lurkers with. Do you have any idea what it is used for? It's made of cast aluminum. As you can see, it's gotten a lot of use over the years.

Depends how big it is, but my mom had a set of three of these for cooking vegetables, they fitted together to make up a whole 'pot' and you could cook a different vegetable in each section. Does that make sense? Very handy things they are!

My MIL had one of them, made by the Guardian Service Company,she got married in 1945. She told me that the salesman (who went door to door) explained the shape as being the optimal shape for the perfect cooking of rice!

She's gone now, and somehow over the years, she had aquired two more. They do make amazing rice, and now my two daughters and I each have one to remember her by every time we cook rice.

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